was $16,000. For the EAPS ID program, this was the nonnegotiable goal, and so a team was established to work with the contractors on reducing manufacturing costs to achieve it.
The cost-per-kill goal has been the basis for many of the decisions and designs on each of the concepts in the EAPS ID program.
Other EAPS ID program goals and result-
kills per platform.
per engagement, at comparable cost.
reduction in manpower, vehicles, and other ground support equipment.
Improvements over the current system include 360-degree hemispherical pro- tection at a greater effective range, from 3 to 10 times the current capability, at a cost per kill no greater than that of the
Technology improvements being devel- oped within EAPS will enable the future system to have a reduced tactical foot- print and smaller logistics burden.
THREE SYSTEM CONCEPTS Three very different concepts are being developed and demonstrated in near- ID program: a Command Guided Interceptor, and an Auto Cannon Com- mand Guided Projectile. Other battle elements of the architecture, including control nodes, are being developed for each concept.
With the Command Guided Intercep- tor, surveillance radars scan an area of operations on watch for an attack. When incoming objects are detected and deter- mined to be a threat, a state-of-the-art - sion tracking of the threat.
an engagement solution and commands an interceptor to launch. Designed to launch vertically, then quickly pitch over toward the threat, the Command Guided Interceptor is able to defend against attacks from any direction.
The system is approximately 60 inches long and less than 5 inches in diameter,
and weighs about 70 pounds. The objec- tive launcher for defense has numerous interceptors stowed in a launcher, allow- ing multiple missiles to defend against attack from multiple threats in the air at one time.
control sensor tracks both missiles and threats simultaneously. To achieve the cost-per-kill goal of the EAPS program, the idea behind the Command Guided concept is to leave the more costly battle element “smarts” on the ground and keep the complexity and cost of the expend- able interceptors low.
The Command Guided concept does not have a seeker onboard, but rather to the interceptor. The interceptor per- forms onboard calculation of guidance corrections, steering the system toward the target.
The interferometry or interferometric
radar technology of the sensor provides highly
accurate measurements of the
Interferometric technology has been used in astronomy and oceanography to map objects at long distances. The Command Guided concept is taking this technology
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